Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" - The inner conflict, the state of madness, and emotional breakdown that one's mind can inflict upon itself

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. At the very beginning of the story, he asks, "...why will you say I am mad?" When the storyteller tells his story, it's obvious why he's mad through the use of literary elements and techniques. He attempts to tell his story in a calm manner, but occasionally jumps into a furious rage. The Tell-Tale …

…Through the use of literary elements and techniques Poe creates a mentally ill state of mind for the narrator. Though the narrator tries to convince the reader that he is sane and the fact his insanity gave him an advantage towards his goal, ironically lead him self into turning himself in to the cops. Poe's narrator of the story, after killing the old man because of his eye, is evident to be most defiantly insane.